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Ed Gilman, left, from the University of Florida agricultural department, and Ian Orlikoff, bottom right, demonstrating how to cut out girdling roots from a Red Maple tree at the Collier County extension office off of Immokalee Road last week during a day-long seminar about tree growth, tree types and tree problems.
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Ed Gilman, from the University of Florida agricultural department, explains the best way to prune a tree to participants of a day-long seminar about tree growth, tree types and tree problems at the Collier County extension office on Thursday, Sept. 15th.
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Ian Orlikoff with Signature Tree Care of Naples stands perched on the branches of a Live Oak tree at the University of Florida Collier County extension office on Thursday, Sept. 15th, as he cuts down branches in order develop the canopy of the tree in the direction it should go. Ed Gilman, with the University of Florida agricultural studies department, has helped facilitate the shaping of the Live Oak. "Trees are stronger when they have one trunk," he explains to a group of participants of a day-long seminar that explained tree growth, tree types and tree problems last week.
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